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Gulfport, Harrison County, MS

Gulfport, Harrison County, MS 3/26/25

 
Violet Wood-sorrel Firewheel Field Marigold Ticksweed, with fly Grass and another plant  

Mississippi Aquarium, Gulfport, Harrison County, MS 3/25/25

Yellow-banded Poison Dart Frog Wild Discus Shrimp Shark Phantasmal Poison Dart Frog

 
Mystery fish, maybe a shark Same fish Porkfish (lower righthand corner) Forcipiger wanai  

 
Guitarfish Mystery fish Mystery fish Mystery fish  

 
Epaulette Shark Eel Clownfish Blue Tang  

     
Blue Spotted Ribbontail Ray Blue Poison Dart Frog      

Gulfport, Harrison County, MS 3/25/25

Northern Mockingbird Violet Wood-sorrel Common Starling Broad-headed Sharpshooter Cat

   
Not dandelions Live Oak catkins Crane's-bill Geraniums    

Gulfport, Harrison County, MS 3/24/25

Willet Terns Snowy Egret Snowy Egret Snowy Egret

   
Snowy Egret Sanderlings and a couple of Dunlins Sanderlings    

 
Sanderlings and Dunlins Preening Sanderling Sanderling Same Sanderling  

 
Ruddy Turnstone Royal Terns Royal Terns and a Laughing Gull Royal Terns and Laughing Gulls

 

Royal Terns and Laughing Gull Royal Terns and Laughing Gulls Royal Tern landing Royal Tern about to dive Another Royal Tern about to dive

Marbled Godwit Same Marbled Godwit Laughing Gulls' chorus, with two bystanders Laughing Gulls' chorus, with just one bystander Forster's Tern, about to dive

 
Forster's Tern Forster's Tern Large dead fish Dunlins and a few Sanderlings  

 
Cranes at the port Black Skimmers Black Skimmers Black Skimmer, with beak open  

 
Black-bellied Plover Black-bellied Plover Black-bellied Plover Black-bellied Plover  

Gulfport, Harrison County, MS 3/23/25

 
Common Vetch Evening Primrose Virginia Spiderwort Seen from the plane  

Gulfport, Harrison County, MS  10/17/22

   
American Coots Black Skimmers, Royal Terns, Ring-billed Gulls, and Forster's Gulls Black Skimmers and flying Royal Terns    

 
Royal Terns and a Forster's Gull Black Skimmers, Forster's Gulls, and a flying Royal Tern Dune Camphorweed (Heterotheca subaxillaris) Great Blue Heron, Royal Terns, and Forster's Gulls  

Great Blue Heron with Royal Terns and Forster's Terns Great Blue Heron Juvie Great Blue Heron Gulf Fritillary Marbled Godwit

 
Same Marbled Godwit Probably a non-breeding Black-bellied Plover Royal Tern Forster's Gulls, Royal Terns, and American Coots  

Royal Terns and Black Skimmers Ruddy Turnstone Same Ruddy Turnstone Sanderling Semi-palmated Plover

 
Short-billed Dowitcher Same Short-billed Dowitcher Trailing Fuzzybean (Strophostyles helvola) Willet  

Mississippi Aquarium, Gulfport, Harrison County, MS  10/16/22

Dolphin Another dolphin Nicobar Pigeon Fish in school Same fish

Fish Lapwing Pretend mermaid Ray Another ray

Scarlet Ibis Turaco White Ibis with a cataract White shark Same white shark

     
Same white shark Same white shark      

Gulfport, Harrison County, MS  10/16/22

 
Beach Morning Glory (Ipomoea imperati) Another Beach Morning Glory (Ipomoea imperati) Creeping Indigo (Indigofera spicata) Mural on Highway 90  

Eastern Bluebirds, two males and a female Two other Eastern Bluebirds An intersection in an interesting part of town Long-tailed Skipper on Lantana Another Long-tailed Skipper on Lantana

   
Northern Mockingbird Sea Slater (Ligia oceanica) Sneezeweed Trailing Fuzzybean (Strophostyles helvola), at the beach    

Waveland, Hancock County, MS  10/15/22

Arrowleaf Sida (Sida rhombifolia) Aster (Symphyotrichum genus) Male Blue Dasher Blue Mistflower (Conoclinium coelestinum) Mystery clover

 
Frog Male Green Darner Post-mating Green Darner pair; the male clamps onto the female's head with his terminal appendages Another post-mating Green Darner pair  

Little Yellow (Eurema lisa) Same Little Yellow (Eurema lisa) Nakedstem Dewflower (Murdannia nudiflora) Nodding Spurge (Euphorbia nutans) Another Nodding Spurge (Euphorbia nutans)

 
Pyralid moth Railroad Vine (Ipomoea pes-caprae) Railroad Vine (Ipomoea pes-caprae) Seedbox (larger than the ones in North Carolina) Sneezeweed  

Gulfport, Harrison County, MS  10/15/22

Dune Camphorweed (Heterotheca subaxillaris) Firewheel (Gaillardia pulchella) Mostly Firewheels (including seedheads) and a few Dune Camphorweeds Sawtooth Frogfruit (Phyla nodiflora) Sawtooth Frogfruit (Phyla nodiflora)

Great Blue Heron Same Great Blue Heron Gulf Fritillary Long-tailed Skipper Airplane

Semi-palmated Plover Snowy Egret Same Snowy Egret Sunset Palm fruits

Gulfport, Harrison County, MS  10/14/22

Military jet Bidens alba Black Skimmer Black Skimmers, Ring-billed Gulls, Brown Pelicans Male Green Darner

Dune Camphorweed (Heterotheca subaxillaris) Great Blue Heron Probably a juvie Great Blue Heron Probably a juvie Great Blue Heron Marbled Godwit

Military aircraft with ejections Same military aircraft Palm Warbler Railroad Vine (Ipomoea pes-caprae) Royal Tern

 
Ruddy Turnstone Trailing Fuzzybean (Strophostyles helvola), at the beach Variegated Meadowhawk Virginia Spiderwort  

Gulfport, Harrison County, MS  10/13/22

Airliner about to fly over our hotel Same airliner, but with landing gear out Firewheel (Gaillardia pulchella) seedhead Checkered skipper Common Buckeye

 
Gulf Fritillary Same Gulf Fritillary Military helicopter Military helicopters  

     
Little Yellow Velvetbean Caterpillar Moth      

10/20/19

   
Nonbreeding Black-bellied Plover Black Skimmers and Royal Terns flying Same birds, more spread out    

   
Black Skimmers, one splashing A few Black Skimmers on sand bar Many Black Skimmers on sand bar    

Fish bone Creeping Indigo (Indigofera spicata). Creeping Indigo (Indigofera spicata) Hermit crab Royal Tern in flight Snowy Egret

10/19/19

Ruddy Turnstone Shoreline facing west Snowy Egret White-winged Dove

Wildflowers Might be a Marbled Godwit View of an elusive bird Lanceleaf Fogfruit More Lanceleaf Fogfruit

   
Jellyfish in the Gulf of Mexico Same jellyfish Railroad Vine    

10/17/19

 
Non-breeding Black-bellied Plover Another Black-bellied Plover Black-bellied Plover pair Bird tracks  

       
Black Skimmers early in the morning        

     
Black Skimmers around noon More Black Skimmers      

Brown Pelicans A small Crape Myrtle Another small Crape Myrtle Dune Camphorweed Goldenrod

   
Goldenrod Great Blue Heron Same Great Blue Heron    

Same Great Blue Heron Same Great Blue Heron Texas Lantana (Lantana urticoides), growing wild in a field Marbled Godwit Another Marbled Godwit

Monarch Wild Poinsettia Another Wild Poinsettia Railroad Vine (Ipomoea pes-caprae) Sanderling and two Semipalmated Plovers

 
Sanderling Another Sanderling Sanderling asserting his area Several squabbling Sanderlings  

Semipalmated Plover Another Semipalmated Plover Same Semipalmated Plover with another Aster seedheads, probably of the Dune Camphorweed Spider flowers.  Photo by Karl D. Gottschalk.

     
Wildflowers Willet      

10/16/17

Great Blue Heron Horseshoe crab Killdeer Same Killdeer Marbled Godwit

 

   
Marbled Godwit Semi-palmated Plover Same Semi-palmated Plover    

10/15/17

 
Ruddy Turnstone Marbled Godwits and other birds, maybe Willets Juvie Brown Pelican Dog  

 

       
Black Skimmers        

10/14/17

Common Buckeye Gulf Fritillary Same Gulf Fritillary Lilies Little Yellow

 

       
Long-tailed Skipper        

10/13/17

 
Semi-palmated Plover Ruddy Turnstone Marbled Godwit Lobster/crayfish skeleton?  

 

   
Great Blue Heron Great Blue Heron Black Skimmers    

10/12/17

American Snout (at the beach) Drooping Jersey Lily Black Skimmer Black Skimmer Common Starlings

 

   
Black Skimmers and gulls in the process of moving to a new spot on the beach Mostly Black Skimmers Black Skimmers and gulls    

 

Cloudless Sulphur on a Turk's Cap Great Blue Heron and gulls Gulf Fritillary Another Gulf Fritillary on a Turk's Cap Gulf Fritillary

 

 
Long-tailed Skipper (Urbanus proteus) Gulls and Marbled Godwit Plover? Semi-palmated Plover  

 

   
Snowy Egret flushing out at least four and maybe six fish Same Snowy Egret flushing out three fish Flying terns    

 

     
Terns, Black Skimmer, gulls and a a large bird that looks like a Black Skimmer/gull hybrid Terns and a few Black Skimmers moving      

 

Verbena on grass median White Winged Dove

10/11/17

Huge cargo ship headed for the port Scarlet-bodied Wasp Moth (Cosmosoma myrodora), which had flown inside Gulf Fritillary on a Firewheel flower Gulf Fritillary on asters Gulf Fritillary on another Firewheel

 

       
White Pelicans, which never returned after this evening        

10/18/15

   
Common Buckeye Willet Mole cricket nymph, rescued from street    

10/18/15

Killdeer Diving Forster's Tern Ruddy Turnstone Gulf Fritillary Forster's Tern

10/17/15

     
Sunrise Blue Jay      

Jones Park 10/16/15

       
The marina, with a lighthouse with ladder access        

10/15/15

 
Black Skimmers Black Skimmers on a sand bar Hermit crab Sanderling  

 

 
Royal Terns, a Black Skimmer and a gull Some local color Felix at the Lynn Meadows Discovery Center Post-mating Common Green Darner pair  

10/15/15

 
Sunset Forster's Terns Gull Black Skimmer  

 

Variegated Meadowhawk Black Skimmers and Bonaparte's Gulls against Biloxi backdrop Black Skimmers flying over the ocean Black Skimmers disturbed on the beach: a man with a dog walked through the middle of them. Black Skimmers resting on the beach

 

False Garlic Great Blue Heron Ribbons Little Yellow Verbena

10/20/13

 
Plant bug (Polymerus basalis).  ID thanks to Yurika Alexander. Moonflower (Ipomea alba) Cuban Brown Anole Sunset scene  

 

     
Jersey Lilies Jersey Lilies Sanderling     

10/17/13

 
Black Skimmer Black Skimmers flying Willet, plover and Sanderling.  Plover may be nonbreeding Black-bellied. Forster's Tern  

 

 
Sanderlings Trailing Wild Bean flowers Trailing Wild Bean showing bean pod Another pea family plant  

 

     
Hermit crab Common Buckeye, but a very fast flyer

10/17/10

   
Black Skimmer in flight, with unequal upper and lower bill sizes clearly visible Black Skimmers, Royal Terns and gulls Black Skimmers and other birds    


   
Black Skimmer in flight, with tail feathers clearly visible Big bird footprint, with large feather for size comparison Maybe the bird that made the big footprint.  Definitely not a Great Blue Heron.    

10/16/10

       
Dainty Sulphur (Nathalis iole)        

10/15/10

     
Black Skimmer flying over gulls Black Skimmer doing "skimming," i.e., scooping prey from the water with its lower beak Skimming by another Black Skimmer Semipalmated Plover      

10/14/10

   
Black Skimmers in flight Gulfport sunset Group of Black Skimmers flying    

 

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